About

Sourabh Shekar is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. He has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Currently, Sourabh is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Nokia. Sourabh is skilled in Java, REST, JPA, Docker, and Red Hat HA. He has developed core frameworks based on Java that extensively made use of REST, JSON, JAX-RS, EJB, CDI, Quartz scheduler, application servers like Wildfly, development tools like Git, Maven, Sonar, Jenkins, Kong API Gateway, and Keycloak. He has also worked with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm Charts and developed modules with Microservices architecture. Additionally, he has worked on Kafka to replace existing JMS based communication. Sourabh is proficient in writing testable Java code and has made use of frameworks like Junit4, Junit 5, and mockito for unit testing. He has gained a good amount of Agile (SAFe) project experience with daily scrum meetings and working on Agile tools like JIRA. He has worked on grooming the requirements, time estimation, and breaking down user stories into subtasks. Prior to his current role, Sourabh worked as a Graduate Engineering Trainee at Alcatel-Lucent. During his tenure, he extensively wrote PERL scripts to automate regression and sanity test suite. He also analyzed the data flow and performance of the system under heavy load. He developed and implemented a HA design for the product with multiple modules, queues on multiple servers, and also implemented database HA using Red Hat Cluster Suite. In terms of education, Sourabh completed his Class 12 from Poornaprajna College, Udupi - 576102, and his Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Overall, Sourabh Shekar is a strong engineering professional with expertise in Java, REST, JPA, Docker, and Red Hat HA. He is a team player and has gained a good amount of Agile (SAFe) project experience.